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Spirits of the Dead

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What would you do to save someone you loved? Husband and father Jon Levande has to ask himself that very question when his daughter is on the brink of death. But what if saving her means losing his own soul . . .
Death has followed successful restoration architect, unhappy husband and desperate father, Jonathan Levande, his whole life, but recently the curious incidents around him have surged. Killed deer, decapitated cheerleaders and a dead homeless man are only the beginning of this dark streak. Now it seems he'll lose his daughter as well. Marie is fatally ill, and the doctors are stumped.
Waiting for death to knock on his door again, Jon buries himself in his work and has an affair to escape his depressive life. Until one day his job of restoring old buildings leads him to St Cecelia cathedral - a haunted, old church in Delaware - and its sinister Rector . . . and to a proposition he can't refuse: a life for a life.
Jon doesn't believe in miracles or dark magic, but he knows that if he doesn't do something his daughter will die soon. Torn but determined, he chooses to save Marie, whatever it takes! But the bargain struck in hell hides dire consequences and Jon soon finds himself confronted with his dark past . . .
The new gripping standalone novel by PWA Award-winning author Keith Gilman will make you question your sense of reality! A great read for everyone who loves supernatural suspense with a fresh twist on classic horror elements.

|Death has followed husband and father Jon Levande his whole life. Now his daughter Marie is fatally ill, and the doctors are stumped. When his job of restoring old buildings leads him to St. Cecelia cathedral and the sinister Rector, he receives a proposition to save Marie: a life for a life. But what if saving her means losing his own soul . . .
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      September 1, 2023
      In Gilman's (My Brother's Keeper, 2012) latest, Jon, a middle-aged architect, is struggling to understand where his life has gone wrong. He is no longer in love with his wife, Katherine, and his daughter, Marie, is devastatingly ill with a sickness no doctor can identify. Katherine, desperate, has turned to religion, mysticism, and magical thinking, lining crystals up on her windowsill and praying to God and gods, hoping for a miracle. Jon, haunted by the death of an old lover and afraid for his wife, talks to a nun about his daughter while restoring an old church, and she gives him an unexpected, disturbing choice: she can cure Marie, but it is a life for a life. Spirits of the Dead is heavy on horror imagery. Blood moons, demonic rituals, and a demented priest pepper the book, but behind all of that is the story of a family falling apart, unable to answer the heartrending question at the center of the novel: what would you sacrifice to make it all better?

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